Keckiella breviflora

(Lindley) Straw

Brittonia 19: 203. 1967.

Common names: Bush beardtongue
Endemic
Basionym: Penstemon breviflorus Lindley Edwards's Bot. Reg. 23: plate 1946. 1837
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 78. Mentioned on page 76, 77.
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Stems erect, spreading with age, 5–20 dm, glabrous when young, glaucous. Leaves opposite, subsessile; blade oblanceolate or lanceolate, 10–40 mm, margins 4–12-toothed. Inflorescences thyrses, glabrous or sticky-hairy. Flowers: caly× 4–8 mm, lobes lanceolate to ovate; corolla white or cream, lobes sometimes rose tinged, lined purplish or pinkish, 12–18 mm, tube plus distinct throat 4–8 mm, shorter than adaxial lip, adaxial lip 8–12 mm; pollen-sacs 0.6–0.8 mm; staminode glabrous, slightly exserted.

Discussion

Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).

Selected References

None.

"dm" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

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0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
David C. Michener +  and Noel H. Holmgren +
(Lindley) Straw +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
Penstemon breviflorus +
lanceolate;oblanceolate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
not +, leathery +  and fleshy +
whorled +, subopposite +  and opposite +
Bush beardtongue +
cream +  and white +
scale-like +  and not needlelike +
Calif. +  and Nev. +
drupe-like +
curved +  and straight +
eglandular-hairy +
1 +  and 4 +
loculicidal +  and septicidal +
white-membranous +
terminal +  and axillary +
sticky-hairy +  and glabrous +
drought-deciduous +
pinkish +, lined purplish +  and rose tinged +
lanceolate;ovate +
4-12-toothed +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
5 +  and 4 +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
spikelike +
minute +
short-tubular +
filamentous +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
spreading;erect +
glaucous +  and glabrous +
Keckiella breviflora +
Keckiella +
species +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
gibbous +  and not spurred +
biennial +, perennial +  and annual +
shrub +  and subshrub +